This is from the Australian
IT was a horrible way to spoil the party and Nathan Hindmarsh and Parramatta want an answer.
The Eels were still seething yesterday over the controversial golden-point loss in Saturday night's derby against Penrith at Centrebet Stadium which soured the celebrations for Hindmarsh's 300th first grade game.
With only a second to go in regulation time, the Eels were caught in possession on the last tackle through Luke Burt after he regathered a kick that had come off a Penrith player but wasn't ruled a chargedown. Referee Jared Maxwell stopped the clock and ordered a changeover.
The Panthers scored a miracle try to send the match into extra time and Panthers halfback Luke Walsh landed a field goal to steal an unlikely win and deny Hindmarsh a fitting finish.
"It baffled me a bit that one," Hindmarsh told ABC Radio yesterday.
"I've been involved in enough games and I've never seen a time out for a changeover.
"I don't think 'Burty' had even got to his feet before he'd blown time out.
"It was a weird one."
Eels chief executive Paul Osborne said he was looking forward to an explanation from referees' coach Bill Harrigan today as to why Maxwell stopped the match.
"I'd be interested to hear their take but what's done is done," Osborne said.
"I don't believe individual decisions end up costing teams finals spots but I look forward to Bill's take on this one."
Harrigan said yesterday he wanted to review the match today before stating publicly whether his men had got it right.
"The referee has ruled that it wasn't a chargedown and that's why he said it was play on (for Burt) and then he obviously stops the clock for a changeover and then we see what unfolds," Harrigan said.
"After (today) when I've done the debrief that's when I can make further comment on it.
"I've watched it but I've put a policy in place for all my coaches and all my referees that we don't talk about particular incidents in a game until we've debriefed it because we've been burnt before."
Hindmarsh accepted the game ball from NRL chief executive David Gallop after the match and admitted he would at least always remember his milestone match.
"What's done is done and we've just got to get on with it," Hindmarsh said.
"Don't get me wrong. I was filthy at the end of the match and it's the worst way to get beat -- a second left on the clock and you've got the game in the bag."
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an apology won't do anything. The moment has passed, Hindy won't ever play his 300th game again and the time for him to celebrate with a win has passed.
Even if Harrigan was to admit Maxwell made a wrong call, and award the 2 points to Parra for a win, the moment has gone. Besides, has that ever happened? I don't remember that ever happeneing before?
"At 26-6 they wouldnt have bothered", what kind of gibberish is that crap, its nearly as good as the Penrith ground announcers" Karma" call.
Harrigan just shows his ignorance yet again, IMO he was on the take when he was a copper as well!
What do you expect though from an ex TRG, I mean they could even get the house number right when they blew that poor kids head apart.
Maybe this was a Q&A blog? There is a blog sitting in Q&A with the somewhat obscure title of "will the club do a Dessie" - ie will they Club at least jump up and down and make some noise.... but no one has 'liked' it yet!!
http://www.1eyedeel.com/forum/topics/will-the-club-do-a-dessie
We lost fair and square. We have nobody to blame.
Ask and Ye shall find out that we lost and all the calls were justified.
Listen up you want the facts parra lost they didnt get ripped off
Listen to the refs
Burt was warned 6 times and yelled at by the refs not played at. When someone tells you still the 5th not played at that means its a handover if you get tackeld.
Burt in his wisdom decided to not listen and kick the ball out or run it dead he chose submission tackle where jennings barely touched him before he fell to the ground. Then as he proceeded to be told to hand the ball over he got up without leaving the ball on the ground. Ref yelled at him to leave it. Then he basically let Smith take the ball and we got penalised. So even if he didnt call time off which he should not have they got the penalty so they would have had the same play.
We had 13 players to tackle 1 jennings and morgan as bad a player as he is missed him 2 times in the same run and allowed him to kick the ball to which they scored a legit try.
We lost we are a soft and cant play 80 mins. We didnt deserve to lose but with about 6 mistakes in the space of 30 secs we deserve to lose. You make 6 mistakes back to back to back and the odd of them winning were about 1 billion they took there chance and won.
Dumb Football loses matches ask the parra players
Luke Burt who has over 12 years in 1st grade why he chose to ignore the refs.
Then ask why Morgan couldnt just whack jennings when he ran at him.
If you can get a good answer out of dumb and dumber then get back to me as I am baffled by the end result and cant forgive either player ATM. Burt better score 4 tries on friday or he can go get stuffed at Wenty next year.
Yes I am a hard marker but you want parra to win you have to be harsh as a supporter and more so as the coach.
Will Burt get a start next year ... I dont think so.
Gawd forget it people its in the past!
As nasty as this may sound and as frustrating the outcome was, simply we need to play for 80 minutes and not 79minutes and 55 seconds!
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